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Across North Carolina, adolescents experiencing mental health crises wait in emergency rooms for days or even weeks for a psychiatric bed to become available. Youth in Mecklenburg County are no exception to this statewide challenge since the county, among many others, lacks the infrastructure required to treat the...

A toddler died early Friday after being exposed to crack cocaine and fentanyl at a west Charlotte motel, according to Charlotte-Mecklenburg police. The girl was identified as 1-year-old Kamelah Doris Michilena, and her mother is a suspect in the case, CMPD said in court documents. Investigators say the girl went into...

The Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office and the State Bureau of Investigation are looking into an in-custody death at the Mecklenburg County Detention Center Friday morning.

Country Herald is Local News, Independent Pulse. Covering breaking local news, sports, lifestyle and events. North Carolina – A gray, mild start settles over the Piedmont this morning, with low clouds hanging over Charlotte and damp air clinging to roads and rooftops. It feels more like early fall than the first...

Ronnie Denton from Gastonia won $1 million on a $10 scratch-off ticket. He chose the $600,000 lump sum. The ticket came from Will's Food Store on South New Hope Road in Gastonia. Denton arrived at lottery headquarters Monday. He faced a choice: $50,000 each year across 20 years, or $600,000...

Two Mint Hill officers were shot, and one man, the suspect, is dead after a shooting at a Mint Hill shopping center Friday morning.

Dogs bring immeasurable joy to our lives, and it is heartbreaking when some are subjected to cruelty and neglect instead. Mable, a sweet and gentle dog, had never known the comfort of kindness. Her early life was filled with pain and mistreatment. She had been abused by the very people...

She has a whistle in her mouth, hornets buzzing around her torso and a mane of brown hair, with a message written above and below her head: “Get ICE out of Charlotte,” the top reads. “You’ve entered the NEST,” the rest of the message says. The artist, Makayla Binter , said the image is Queen Charlotte portrayed as...

Two people are seriously hurt Thursday morning after an overnight shooting in northwest Charlotte.

Mt. Zion Restoration Church, the organization behind Bountiful Blessings Food Pantry, is currently building a community restoration center that will eventually offer laundry facilities, showers and more to community members in need. In the meantime, Pastor Rodney Freeman is working with Gaston County, the city of...